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w. R. CRAIG. KITGHENV CABINET.

No. 258,851. Patented May 30,1882

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UNITED" STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM R. CRAIG, OF DE WITT, NEBRASKA, ASSIGNOR TO MARY E. CRAIG, OF SAMEPLACE.

KITCHEN- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,851, dated May CABINET.

Application filed August 3, 1881. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, W. R. CRAIG, of De Witt, in the county of Saline and State of Nebraska, have invented certain useful Improvements in Kitchen-Gabinets, of which the following is a specification. 1

This invention relates to that class of devices that combine in one several articles ot kitchen or household furniture.

The invention consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and poipted out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cabinet with the parts open or displayed. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a portion of the cabinet, showing the biscuit or rollingboard opened or extended. Fig. 4 is a partial side elevation of the cabinet. Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional elevation through sink and closet.

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In the drawings, A represents the base of the cabinet, on which is arranged the closet B, provided with shelves (6 and hinged door I). At the side of the closet B is a drawer, G, of the full height of said closet B, and having secured on the under side of its bottom, on each side thereof, a rack, c, and having journaled in a central aperture, d, in its bottom a roller, f, the latter being designed to facilitate the opening and closing of said drawer G, and the racks 0 being designed to engage with pinions g, that are journaled on a shaft, g, sunken in the base A, whereby the bottom ofsaid drawer 0 is kept from frictional contact with the base A, and at the same time more easily arrested at any desired point. At the side of the drawer O is another closet, D, of greater height than said drawer, provided with a door, h, and designed to contain the bread-pan z or other kitchen utensils.

Above the closet and drawer B O is the biscuit or rolling board E, having racks 70 on its reverse side, that engage in corresponding pinions, 7c',fixed on a shalt, k which is journaled above the closet and drawer B O. Said racks and pinions k k are designed to facilitate the adjustment of said board E. On the horizontal portions of the raised ends or sides of the said rolling-board Eare formed racks I, that are designed to engage in pinions Z, that are fixed on opposite ends of a shaft, Z ,-'which is journaled above said board E, and from the back of said board E a pin, l, projects upward, whose function is to prevent said board E from being pulled too far out by taking against the said shaft l Restingon the tops of the pinions l is the rolling-board cover F, provided with racks 1*. Hence when the rolling-board E is drawn out, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the cover Fis moved in the reverse direction inward, and when the said board E is pushed in, as-shown in Fig. 4, the said cover F is moved forward and closes down on the inclined portion of the ends or sides of the board E, as shown. Between the board E and cover F is sufficient room for a rolling-pin, H, as shown in Fig. 1.

Above the board and cover E F is arranged the cupboard G, provided with shelves at and hinged doors G, having ventilating-openings a, covered with wire screens 0.

The closet and drawer B 0 combined, the board E, and the cupboard G are of equal width and have a common back, I, while the closet D is built, as it were, against the side of the drawer O and reaches up to about the bottom of the cupboard G. Hinged on the outer edgeof'the top of this closet D, so as to move in a vertical plane, is the sink K, that closes up against the end or side of the cupboard G, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, in a continuous line with the side of the closet D. Said .sink K is preferably lined with sheetmetalp,

and is provided with a discharge-pipe, g. In the lower end of this sink K, as it appears when closed, is a groove or depression, 8, that is designed to retain what water may be in said sink K' when it is closed. A hook, L, having an ofi'set or bend, t, in its shank and attached to said sink K, is designed to hold it in a closed position or open position. When said sink K is open the hook L engages its point overa pin, to, projecting from the back I of the cabinet, as shown in Fig. 1, and when closed the offset t engages over said pin a, as shown in Fig. 5.

I am aware that cabinets somewhat resembling mine have been constructed; but I am 2. In a kitchen-cabinet, the combination, with the closet D and the cupboard G, of the sink K, provided with the water-retaining depression s, hinged to the said closet and adapted to fold against the side of the cupboard, 15 substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

WILLIAM R; CRAIG.

Witnesses:

S. A. SEYMOUR, L. P. SEYMOUR. 

